Bringing Down the House

Jet, March 17, 2003 by Sylvia P. Flanagan

Touchstone Pictures (Rated PG-13)

Peter Sanderson, a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney, still loves his ex-wife and can't figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. Trying to move on with his life, he has been chatting on-line with a brainy bombshell. But when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face meeting, she isn't Ivy League, and isn't even a lawyer. Instead it's Charlene, a prison escapee who's proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help clear her name. Peter wants nothing to do with her. In the end, our unlikely pair has the chance to put each other's lives on high ground ... if they don't end up bringing down the house. Starring: Queen Latifah, Steve Martin, Steve Harris, Jean Smart, Eugene Levy, Missy Pyle, Kimberly J. Brown, Betty White, Michael Rosenbaum, and Joan Plowright.